Meat & Livestock Australia’s Objective Measurement Program has partnered with a number of technology providers to aid in the development, commercialisation and AusMeat accreditation of a number of technologies to measure beef and lamb carcase quality traits.
In November, the MEQ Probe (pictured below) was accredited for measuring intramuscular fat (IMF%) in lamb.
This was a world-first development in eating quality for the Australian lamb industry, with IMF% a key eating quality trait measurement required for the soon to be commercialised sheepmeat…